PRCo 2100 & 3556

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Bob Schmidt wrote:

> Greasings!

	Thanks for the additional info on 2100.

> The photo shown at:
> http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp19.htm
> is not car 3555. The picture is of a 4800-4939 series car.

	The above picture is neither 3555 nor 4800-4939 series but the car is
3556.  The same photo shows in ERA Headlights July 1952 issue - a
reprint of which is available from PTM.  This car, 3556, is 50-52 feet
in length.  The 4800-4939 series was the standard length low-floor car -
check window count.
> 
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> 
> Subject: PRCo 2100 & 3556
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:36:33 -0800
> From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> To: PRCo -- WP -- JTC -- The Big *3* -- <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> 
> Greetings!
> 
>         Good old ISP is acting up again.  Received Ed's answer as
> "southbound at County Line" hours before Matt's question entitled: "This
> IS a tough One!" shows up and before Ed's response of ". . . tell me the
> signal
> number!"
>         According to the July 1952 issue of *Electric Railroads,* this
> PRCo car 2100 http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp27.htm was
> made by the company shops by splicing two single truck cars together.
> While I have what I *thought* was an exhaustive listing of all PRCo
> equipment, this number does not show up on the list!
>         And *Electric Railroads* identifies this same photo,
> http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp19.htm, as 3556, not 3555.
> This same photo is used in *Electric Railroads.*  The builder is listed
> as Standard-Steel, PRCo.  Being built in 1915, it was the predecessor of
> the 3700 series interurbans.
> http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp03.htm is another photo of
> the car on a cold day in Canonsburg.  Note the windshield wiper!!!  Had
> to be before January 28 1946 as that is when the car was scrapped by
> burning at Ingram.  (*Electric Railroads* can still be purchased as a
> reprint from PTM.)
> 
> James B. Holland
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>         Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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James B. Holland
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        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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